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SHOW OF PRIDE: Butcher Stabs Self To Death In Zaria, Kaduna State

A 44-year-old butcher at Tudun Wada
Market in Zaria, Kaduna State, Tanko
Maitsiren-Safe, has stabbed himself to death.

Confirming the report, the Sarkin
Fawan Tudun Wada, Malam Abdullahi
Ibrahim, described the incident as pathetic and an outdated means of
showing pride by ancient butchers.

Ibrahim advised
other butchers to transform the trade, “especially
now that most businesses in the country have been modernised”.

A police source in the area, who
pleaded anonymity, also confirmed the incident in Zaria. The source said the
case was reported to the police on Jan. 15 and that policemen were immediately
mobilised to the scene of the incident.

On reaching the scene, they snapped
the picture of the deceased and gathered some information from eye witnesses. After
that, we ordered his relations to bury him, said the source.

Similarly, an eye witness, Malam Yahuza Mohammed, said that the
deceased and his boy were preparing “tsire”
or “suya meat” (barbeque) when the boy slightly cut his hand with a
knife.

He
said:

“On seeing
what happened to his boy, the deceased collected the knife and proudly stabbed
his lap thrice without any harm to his lap”.

“He then
opened his stomach and stabbed first and second without causing any injury to
the stomach, but on stabbing the third time, the knife went dip into him thus
flushing out his intestines forcefully”, he said.

The incident has dominated public
discourse in Zaria City and its surrounding villages.